Three Calls for Session Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
11-15 December 2017
New Orleans, Louisiana
Early abstract deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Abstract submission deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 2 August 2017
For further information about the meeting and abstract submission, go to: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2017 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 11-15 December 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Conveners of the following three sessions invite abstract submissions:
- SESSION 25268: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change
Conveners: Natalie Boelman, Michelle C Mack, Abhishek Chatterjee, and Peter C Griffith.
Climate change is unfolding faster in the high northern latitudes than anywhere else on Earth. These changes are impacting ecological processes directly, through warmer temperatures and changing precipitation, and indirectly, though increasing frequency of climate-driven disturbances such as wildfire, outbreaks of pests and pathogens, and permafrost thaw. Although some ecosystems are resistant or resilient to these changes, many are shifting to new states, altering the function of the Arctic-boreal region. This session invites contributions in terrestrial ecology and carbon cycle science that provide conceptual, regional, or global insights into the resilience and vulnerability of the Arctic-boreal region, including its wildlife and ecosystem services, to changing climate. Contributions may address any geographic area of this region. Organizers welcome studies that use models, in situ experiments and observations, remote sensing data, or combination thereof, to conceptualize, detect, predict, or forecast the changing function of this region in the earth system.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session25268
- SESSION 26207: Greenhouse Gas Exchange, Production, and Biogeochemical Transformations in Marine and Terrestrial High-Latitude Open-Water
Conveners: John Pohlman and Brett F. Thornton.
High-latitude warming has the potential to release carbon stored beneath lakes and rivers, thaw subsea permafrost in the coastal zone, and dissociate methane hydrate beneath the oceans. These high-latitude carbon stocks contain enough carbon to dramatically elevate the global greenhouse gas inventory, yet their atmospheric contributions appear relatively small, at present. Aquatic systems are conduits for transmitting carbon-mobilizing heat into sediments and the seafloor. They are also habitats for biological communities that consume and transform carbon and other elements into biomass and other reservoirs, thereby limiting gas transfer to the atmosphere. Orgnaziers welcome microbiological, geochemical, and modeling studies from a range of aquatic systems including lakes, rivers, polynyas, ice-covered and ice-free seas, that quantify fluxes, constrain origins, and decipher elemental cycles influencing carbon and greenhouse gas exchange. Organziers encourage studies that utilize novel instrumental and analytical strategies, and explore carbon cycle and greenhouse gas dynamics during previous climate transitions.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session26207
For questions, contact:
John Pohlman
Email: jpohlman [at] usgs.gov
- SESSION 25995: Arctic Science: Beyond Silos to Synthesis and Systems
Conveners: Martin O. Jeffries, Jacqueline Richter-Menge, Carolina Behe, and Stephen T. Gray.
The changing Arctic is a new environment of opportunities and challenges. It is attracting increasing interest from the maritime transportation, natural resources, and tourism industries, with implications for cultural transitions, infrastructure, and national security. Arctic research is often siloed along disciplinary lines, reflecting traditional science education and research practice. There is a need for a multi-knowledge and interdisciplinary approaches that focus on synthesis and the inter-linking of systems to enhance our understanding and to predict changes; for generating value-added products and services for Arctic residents and operators; and to inform decision- and policy-making. This session, organized by U.S. Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) staff and implementation team leaders, offers an opportunity to discuss topics such as current Arctic synthesis, system science, and Indigenous Knowledge thinking and practice; the co-production of knowledge; socio-ecological systems and resilience; Arctic region system modeling; and Arctic-global system linkages.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session25995
For questions, contact:
Martin Jeffries
Email: mjeffries [at] ostp.eop.gov
Carolina Behe
Email: carolina [at] iccalaska.org
Steve Gray
Email: sgray [at] usgs.gov
Jackie Richter-Menge
Email: jrichtermenge1_ua [at] alaska.edu